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Dr Ashley J Ruiter
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🇦🇺🇨🇦 UNSW CBR astronomer in 🇩🇪 for a bit, woman in STEM, binary stars, supernovae 🌟, mom of 3 + beardie 🐉, breaking, caravaning, LGBTQIA2S Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️⚧ she/her
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Star-eating secrets revealed! Monash astrophysicists Fan Liu and Amanda Karakas uncover seven stars that have recently devoured rocky planets, challenging our understanding of stable solar systems. nature.com/articles/s41...

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Astronomy peeps at Science meets Parliament #SMP2024@cosmicpinot.bsky.social@scibry.bsky.social

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Happy B’day, CDSCC! 🎉 We absolutely love that Australia happens to play such a vital role in the critical infrastructure of global space comms. Check out our feature articles about Canberra DSN here: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/canb...www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/when...

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Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia - © N. D. Liao - PhotoHD PhotoAbout Astronomy Picture Of the Day#astrophotos@shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

What's happening across that field?  Pictured here are not auroras but nearby light pillars, a phenomenon typically much closer.   In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting sunlight from the upper atmosphere.  Usually, these ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground.  During freezing temperatures, however, flat fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in a form of light snow  sometimes known as a crystal fog.  These ice crystals may then reflect ground lights in columns not unlike a Sun pillar.  The featured image was taken last month across the Wulan Butong Grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China.
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How to push back though, and who would do it? They are pushing astronomy out of my faculty (part of UNSW) cuz there hasn't been enough cash flow (2 Future Fellowships don't actually count) 😐 Our faculty is literally there to turn a profit, thus bluesky research does not have a secure place there.

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From Janette Suherli: Today’s paper challenges the modifications suggested for the cosmological model as the solution to explain the anomalies observed in JWST. 🔭🧪 astrobites.org/2024/02/17/c...

Cosmic Inconsistencies: JWST Anomalies and HST Perspectives
Cosmic Inconsistencies: JWST Anomalies and HST Perspectives

Today’s paper challenges the modifications suggested for the cosmological model as the solution to explain the anomalies observed in JWST.

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Starting off Friday's session 2 is @astro-jje.bsky.social#AstroTDU 🌟🏳️‍🌈🌟

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Conference fatigue is hitting but I’m back posting! Earlier we heard from Francisco Forster on ALeRCE, a broker that helps us sort out large amount of survey data and find transient events for rapid follow ups with other facilities. #AstroTDU 🧪🔭

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Redback (by Nikhil Sarin) is an open source software to obtain data for, interpret, and model/fit transients. And nice that the talk comes with coding examples! #AstroTDU 🔭🧪

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Dr Ashley J Ruiter
@astronomash.bsky.social
🇦🇺🇨🇦 UNSW CBR astronomer in 🇩🇪 for a bit, woman in STEM, binary stars, supernovae 🌟, mom of 3 + beardie 🐉, breaking, caravaning, LGBTQIA2S Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️⚧ she/her
175 followers116 following41 posts